Thank you for that not-at-all irritating post, Martin. On the contrary, you
drew some connections that are highly pertinent to how we came to be where
we find ourselves today, politically and artistically. For me, at least,
your connections formed a kind of fault tree, linking my own
student-activist days before and after Mai 68--via the virtual hero worship
that I and others lavished on the magnificent Danny--with my simultaneous
activities as a theatre student for whom Julian Beck and Judith Malina were
extremely important--a balancing political force against the mystical
tendencies that were drawing me and others toward Gratowski during the same
period. So, I was very glad to learn of the commemorative CD and look
forward to hearing it, while at the other end of the media spectrum your
post laid out, I'm no less grateful for the video footage--a duly chastening
thing to watch indeed.
Thanks again,
Candice
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